Turning Waste Into High-Quality Secondary Raw Materials
With the exploding costs of raw materials, many industries seek to efficiently sort and recycle their waste, with a goal of repurposing and reusing any materials that can have a second life. Types of waste converted Here are few common types of wastes that industries turn into quality secondary raw materials: 1. Plastic recovery The most common type of waste conversion in the industry is plastic. The use of plastic has increased by twenty-fold, and certain consumer products contain more than 50 different plastic resins. Recycling them poses a technical challenge. Although many companies offer plastic recycling techniques for plastic films, containers, bottles, technical industrial plastics, etc., even the most complex processes are needed to recycle food-grade plastics. 2. Biowaste recovery Recovery of biowaste as compost is another example of converting waste. The compost of food waste, plant waste, card, paper, and leaves, biowaste is a type of biodegradable waste generated by ma...